Coupon



(No Model.)

I. C. REED 8v C. CONGDON.

COUPON.

No.- 462,328. Patented N0v.3,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRAM C. REED AND CHARLES OONGDON, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

COUPON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,328, dated November3, 1891.

Application led December l0, 1890. Serial No. 374.132. (No model.)

T0 all wiz/om. t may concern:

Be it known that we, IRAM C. REED and CHARLES OONGDON, of Syracuse, inthe county of Onondaga, in the State of New York,have invented new anduseful Improvements in Coupons, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Our invention relates to coupons as a new article of manufacture and areadapted to be used in selling and delivering milk or other liquids.

Our object is to produce as a new article of manufacture a book ofcoupons upon a stub for which the vendor may keep account with thecustomers, and also aset of coupons which may be of great convenience tothe customer, tearing olf each unit-coupon as it is used.

Our invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafterdescribed, and specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed. Itis constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in Which- Figure l is an isometrical View of a book of couponscomplete. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the stub and coupon detached fromeach other. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the unitcoupon detached'.Y Fig. 4tis a plan view of a fractional part of a unit-coupon detached.

Similar letters of reference in dicate the corresponding parts.

A is a book or pad of a set of coupons and its accompanying stubcomplete, bound or secured together in any ordinary manner.

B is the stub, and C is a sheet of coupons detachably connected to thestub, preferably by perforations, as shown.

It will be seen that the vendor may keep his accounts with his customersupon the stub, and that the customers may retain the sheet of couponsintact, tearing olf a unitcoupon or a fraction thereof, as desired. Itwill also be observed that these unit-coupons may be numberedconsecutively, thus showing the vendor and customer the quantity of milkor liquid had at any time desired.

What we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

Asa new article of manufacture, a milkcoupon book consisting of a stubfor each leaf of coupons, having blank spaces thereon, upon whichaccount may be kept with the customers, and a sheet of coupons attachedto each stub, divided into unit-compartments and each unit subdividedand the Whole detachably secured together by perforations, as set forth.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands on this 4th day ofDecember, 1890.

IRAM O.- REED. CHARLES CONGDON. In presence of- H. P. DENIsoN, C. W.SMITH.

